The festival takes place on the Stoddart farm, on the banks of the Obey River between Nashville and Knoxville on May 28, 29 and 30th. Performances will be filmed for the Jammin at Hippie Jack’s public television program.

Discounted tickets are available until May 26 (a three-day pass with camping is $50 in advance, $60 at the gate; single-day passes are also available, at $16 in advance and $20 at the gate).

Most musical Nashvillians (which is, what? 93 percent of the population?) are settling down for a gig-less week or two before touring picks up in January, but roots-rock honcho Webb Wilder and his Beatnecks band are planning on firing up their vintage amps twice more this year.

Wilder, known for two decades around Music City as “The Last Of The Full Grown Men,” plays Saturday, Dec. 26 at 3rd & Lindsley (818 3rd Ave. S., 259-9891) at 7:30 p.m.

On New Year’s Eve, he’ll play at Puckett’s Grocery in Leiper’s Fork (4142 Old Hillsboro Rd., 794-1308) at 8 p.m.

There's a $10 cover charge for each show. Expect a holiday set list filled with longtime favorites such as “Tough It Out” and “Meet Your New Landlord,” as well as music from Wilder’s widely-hailed 2009 release, More Like Me.

For Nashvillians, the festival is an exceptional chance to appreciate some of the wealth of top-notch talent Music City has to offer — but it’s also a prime opportunity to see some gifted folks who aren’t always in our neck of the woods. Here are just a few of the can’t-miss acts performing this weekend.

After releasing four acclaimed solo albums in the ’70s and ’80s (as well as writing hits for the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt), JD Souther took a 25-year break from recording solo albums. The Nashville resident has finally broken the silence with If the World Was You, a timeless collection of tunes that marry elements of jazz, Latin and country with exquisite production and masterful scene setting.Playing: Fri., Sept. 18, 11 p.m., Mercy Lounge.

Longtime Nashvillian Gunnar Nelson -- of early-'90s-hit-making brother band Nelson -- is working a busy schedule at the moment, his publicist says, with some solo country material due alongside a new Nelson set (dubbed Lightning Strikes Twice, due in October) and an in-the-works documentary TV series with the producer of hit show Little People, Big World.

But of particular interest to parents who came up loving Nelson's harmonied pop: Gunnar has a solo song called "Band in a Van" on the new Walt Disney Records' Mater's Car Tunes album -- which is stocked with 12 tunes inspired by the hit animated film Cars. (Nelson is far from the only Nashvillian contributing to Mater -- the album, which was released in late August, also features Tom Hambridge, Britt Savage, Webb Wilder and others.)

"'Band in a Van' was a blast to record in Nashville," the singer-songwriter said in a statement. "A classic car song, which gave me the perfect vehicle to shift gears and really have some fun! Plus, I'm a huge fan of Cars and the whole Route 66 era of roadsters and hot rods, and this single was such an imaginative way to continue Disney's wonderful franchise."

This isn't Gunnar Nelson's first trip to Disney-land, either: He also sang the tune "Rocking Little Roadster" from the 2006 Cars-related album Lightning McQueen's Fast Tracks, which also features the contributions of Nashville's Joy Lynn White and Kevin Montgomery (the latter artist offers a cover of Willie Nelson's iconic and project-appropriate "On the Road Again").